Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-08
GRAPHIC AccorNr OF THE AFFAIR

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reached him. Still he was taken to the
jail-yard and hanged to a tree, when the
mob dispersed.
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIR
SALEM, July 7th.-[By Postal Telegraph. I
From c. E. Shaw, driver of the Dallas
stage between Salem and that place, the
following particulars regarding the Kelly
lynching were learned: Over week ago
Sheriff Groves, who had kept a strong
guard over Kelly in the jail at Dallas.
thought all danger of lynching past and re-
duced the guard TO one man, whose name
is Henry Depugh. Everything had been
exceedingly quiet as regards the Keltv
murder ever since, and all apprehension on
the part of the prisoner and people had
been allayed, but this morning at . o'clock
two wagons and two hacks loaded with
men and a number on horseback, in all
about fifty persons, drove quietly into
Dallas and went straight TO the Jail They
were seen to arrive by parties at the hotel
They seemed prepared for business, and
made no delay. The guard was in the cell
with the prisoner when the mob arrived,
and reports him as greatly excited The
lynchers began battering down the outside
door, and Kelly. who understood what was
coming, asked the guard to give him a knife
to kill himself. On the guard refusing to
do so, he seized lamp, broke il and began
cutting his throat and neck with fragments
of glass. He succeeded in making several
terrible gashes, from which the blood ran
in streams The men went quietly on with
their work, breaking through the first door,
then the second, and lastly into the cell,
where they found the prisoner in a terrible
state and very weak from loss of blood.
The guard was helpless in the hands of
company of well-armed and determined
men, and offered no resistance. Kelly was
taken across the street to the north of the
Jail and into the Court house yard, where
were several large oak trees. Over limb
of one rope was thrown. The other end
was placed around the prisoners neck, and
few stanch pulls by strong-armed men,
and Kelly was suspended in air.
All this was watched by Harry 0scher
from his residence outside the Courtyard
Having accomplished Their purpose the
lynchers retired, and very little was known
of the affair in Dallas until after daylight
this morning. When the tragic news was
told the town was ablaze with excitement,
but the unanimous verdict was that this
was fine ending to this dreadful affair.
At daylight this morning the body was cut
down and taken charge Of by the proper
authorities. With the exception of cuts
about the neck the corpse looked very
natural Inueeu. Inc lhQuSS nad not been
held up to time of leaving of the stage.
Kelly had almost recovered from his
wound, and was looking and feeling quite
cheerful. He appeared to have hopes
of being cleared. 1t is believed The
lynching party came from the neighbor-
hood OF Perrydale and Mccoy, where the
murder was committed by Kelly A number
wore masks and others did not 1t is un-
derstood that there was a plan on foot by
the officers to move the prisoner to Salem
for sate-keeping, and it is believed the
lynchers had heard of it and resolved to
save the trouble and expense by summary
dealings.
1t is no, known as yet what course will
be pursued by the authorities, but in all
probability an effort will be made to ascer-
tain the leaders of the party and bring
them to trial.
Ben. Hoiladay Dying.
fccpygi, 1857, by The California Associated Press
PORTLAND, July 7tb.-Ben. Holiday. of
pony express and overland stage fame. is
dying at st. Vincent Hospital, in this city.
of paralysis. He has been unconscious
since morning, and death is expected before
midnight. His wife and children. who ar